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Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation</span><br>
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style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Rennes, France;
Dec <span class="Object" role="link"
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The registrations for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018
Conference are now open.
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-decoration:
underline;">Early registration deadline:</span> October
31st, 2018</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The annual
ACM/IFIP/USENIX <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span
id="DWT2447" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2462"
class="ZmSearchResult">Middleware</span></span> conference
is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and
recent scientific advances of <span id="DWT2449"
class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2464"
class="ZmSearchResult">middleware</span></span> </span>systems
with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and
evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures
for computing, storage, and communication. Highlights of the
conference will include a high quality single-track technical
program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel
discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster
and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium,
tutorials and workshops.<br>
</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"> <strong>Conference
Highlights:</strong></div>
<ul style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 14.15999984741211px;">
<li>High-quality single-track technical program <span
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">(the list of
accepted papers is available at </span><span
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"></span><span
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style="cursor: pointer;"><a
href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139);
text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/</a></span></span></span></span><span
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">)</span></li>
<li>Industry track</li>
<li>Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin Gün Sirer</li>
<li>Best paper award presentation</li>
<li>Test-ot-Time award presentation<br>
</li>
<li>High-quality tutorials and workshops</li>
<li>Posters and demos sessions</li>
<li>A doctoral symposium that gives PhD students an
opportunity to present and discuss their research with their
peers and receive valuable feedback from senior researchers
and experts from both industry and academia</li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Student
travel grants </span></li>
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<div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"> <strong><span
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Conference
Venue<br>
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<div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"> <span
style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">The 2018
ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference will be held at the
IRISA/Inria lab in Rennes, France. Rennes is the historical
capital of Brittany. It is located about 350km west of Paris
and 110km north of Nantes. The city is only one hour from
the seaside and its impressive attractions : </span></div>
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font-size: 14.15999984741211px;">
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Le
Mont Saint-Michel, an iconic abbey built in the heart of
an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Saint-Malo
a famous walled corsair city<br>
</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Cancale
a port city known for its oysters.</span></li>
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<div><strong>Organization Committee</strong></div>
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<div><strong>General chair</strong></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"
data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span
id="DWT305" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT313"
class="ZmSearchResult">Guillaume</span></span> <span
id="DWT307" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT315"
class="ZmSearchResult">Pierre</span></span>,</span>
Univ. Rennes, France<br>
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<div><strong>Program chairs</strong></div>
<div>Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal<br>
</div>
<div>Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA</div>
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<div><strong>Artifact Evaluation Committee Chair</strong></div>
<div>Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA<br>
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<div><strong>Industry track chairs</strong></div>
<div>Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland<br>
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<div>Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France</div>
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<div><strong>Workshops/tutorials chairs</strong></div>
<div>Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA<br>
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<div>Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and
Business, Greece</div>
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<div><strong>Posters/demos chairs</strong></div>
<div>Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass Amherst, USA<br>
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<div>Piyush Harsh, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland</div>
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<div><strong>Doctoral symposium chairs</strong></div>
<div>Laurent Réveillère, Université de Bordeaux, France<br>
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<div>Luís Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal</div>
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<div><strong>Test-of-Time award chair</strong></div>
<div>Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California,
Irvine, USA<br>
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<div><strong>Sponsor chair</strong></div>
<div>Christine Morin, Inria, France<br>
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<div><strong>Local arrangements chair</strong></div>
<div>David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France<br>
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<div><strong>Proceedings chair</strong></div>
<div>Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the
Netherlands<br>
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<div><strong>Communication chair</strong></div>
<div>François Taïani, Univ. Rennes, France<br>
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<div><strong>Web and social media chair</strong></div>
<div>Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France<br>
</div>
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<div><strong>Publicity chairs</strong></div>
<div>Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA<br>
</div>
<div>Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France</div>
<div>Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson Research, Sweden</div>
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<div><strong>Student activities chair</strong></div>
<div>Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France<br>
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<div>Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA</div>
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